{"id":80499,"date":"2026-09-26T09:20:30","date_gmt":"2026-09-26T09:20:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsvog.com\/ur\/80499"},"modified":"2026-09-26T09:20:31","modified_gmt":"2026-09-26T09:20:31","slug":"one-dead-5-missing-after-explosion-destroys-building-in-athens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsvog.com\/ur\/80499","title":{"rendered":"One dead, 5 missing after explosion destroys building in Athens"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div style=\"font-size:16px;line-height:1.6\">\n<p><strong>ATHENS: A woman has died and five people are missing after a residential building collapsed following \u200ban explosion in a tourist area of \u200ccentral Athens, a Greek fire brigade official said on Saturday.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The blast on Friday destroyed a two-storey building in Plaka, \u200bnear some of Athens\u2019 most visited sites \u200bincluding the Acropolis and the Temple of \u2060Zeus, injuring three people and damaging houses, shops \u200band cars.<\/p>\n<p>Emergency crews assisted by rescue dogs were looking \u200bfor an elderly couple who lived in one apartment and four tourists who were staying in another.<\/p>\n<p>They found the \u200bbody of a young woman early on Saturday \u200bas they removed rubble from the building which was reduced \u200cto \u2060a mess of twisted metal, broken balconies and hanging concrete slabs, the fire brigade official said.<\/p>\n<p>The tourists \u2013 whose nationalities are not confirmed \u2013 were expected to \u200bcheck out \u200bto catch \u2060a flight from Athens airport at 3 p.m. on Friday but they didn\u2019t \u200bshow up, a police official said.<\/p>\n<p>It \u200bwas \u2060not immediately clear what caused the blast in an area which is home to many hotels and \u2060short-term \u200brentals. Athens mayor Haris Doukas \u200bsaid on Friday it was likely linked to gas infrastructure. \u201cSomething went \u200bterribly wrong.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/arynews.tv\/one-dead-5-missing-after-explosion-destroys-building-in-athens\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ATHENS: A woman has died and five people are missing after a residential building collapsed following \u200ban explosion in a tourist area of \u200ccentral Athens, a Greek fire brigade official said on Saturday. The blast on Friday destroyed a two-storey building in Plaka, \u200bnear some of Athens\u2019 most visited sites \u200bincluding the Acropolis and the Temple of \u2060Zeus, injuring three&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":80500,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kad_blocks_custom_css":"","_kad_blocks_head_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_body_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_footer_custom_js":"","_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-80499","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pakistan"],"taxonomy_info":{"category":[{"value":16,"label":"Pakistan"}]},"featured_image_src_large":["https:\/\/newsvog.com\/ur\/wp-content\/uploads\/Athens-1024x555.jpg",1024,555,true],"author_info":{"display_name":"frkhokhar@gmail.com","author_link":"https:\/\/newsvog.com\/ur\/author\/frkhokhargmail-com"},"comment_info":0,"category_info":[{"term_id":16,"name":"Pakistan","slug":"pakistan","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":16,"taxonomy":"category","description":"All about Pakistan","parent":0,"count":6345,"filter":"raw","cat_ID":16,"category_count":6345,"category_description":"All about Pakistan","cat_name":"Pakistan","category_nicename":"pakistan","category_parent":0}],"tag_info":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsvog.com\/ur\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80499","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsvog.com\/ur\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsvog.com\/ur\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsvog.com\/ur\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsvog.com\/ur\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=80499"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newsvog.com\/ur\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80499\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":80501,"href":"https:\/\/newsvog.com\/ur\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80499\/revisions\/80501"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsvog.com\/ur\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/80500"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsvog.com\/ur\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80499"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsvog.com\/ur\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80499"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsvog.com\/ur\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80499"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}